Hi everyone,
I have finally found the most amazing way to store my makeup although I don't consider myself to have all that much makeup I really wanted a way to store it all nice and neatly. Hopefully I will get more use out of it now I can see it all.
Anyway I went to ikea and bought the Alex 9 drawer unit. Yes I can hear you all now 9 drawers! how much makeup does she consider not that much, but I did use some of the drawers for hair accessories and tools.
The drawer set comes with 5 smaller drawers measuring 3 1/2in deep
and 4 larger drawers measuring just over 5in deep.
For me these measurements where perfect. The top drawers will comfortably fit most bronzers and blushes and lipsticks.
I have three pots on the top of my drawers. I have face brushes in one, eye brushes in another and everyday products in the last pot. I also have a candle from Yankee candle.
My top drawer as you can see has all my foundations, concealers and some scissors, tweezers etc. The box I have for foundations is the bottom of a glossybox (monthly beauty box) and for my concealers I used a Ferrero Rocher box.
Drawer two contains all of my blushes and bronzers and down the edge are my samples to try. The boxes in this drawer again are from my glossybox subscription.
Drawer 3 has all of my eye makeup including eyeshadows, eyebrow powder, fake eyelashes, mascara, eyeliners and paint pots. Box is from glossy box.
Drawer 4 has my lipsticks, lip glosses, lip pencils and lip balms. The lipsticks are in a stackable Starbucks tin I got at christmas. The lip glosses are in a glossybox.
Number 5 is empty.
Drawer 6 houses all my nail polishes, nail art accessories and fake nails. The dividers I used in this drawer I found in the bedroom section of ikea I just cut them to the size I needed them an slotted in my nail polishes it keeps them from sliding all over the place. I have organised them by colour (with help from my sister, this ended with a different colour of nail polish on every nail).
Drawer 7 I have all my hair tools. Straighteners, hairdryer, curlers etc.
Drawer 8 has all my hair bobbles, hair clips/pins and hair bands. These boxes are an assortment of boxes which were Christmas gift sets.
And finally drawer 9 holds all of my miscellaneous stuff like empty lush pots, MAC emptys (only 3 more and I get a free lipstick!) I also have dry shampoo and lots of other things that dont really have anywhere else to go.
So I hope you enjoyed reading this post I still have an empty drawer so comment with any ideas of what I could fill it with, or any other ways you would have organised it.
I you would like an in-depth on any of the drawers comment below and I will do a makeup collection post.
I also videoed the building of the unit so if you want head on over to my youtube and have a look.
links to Ikea
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50192822/ Alex Drawers
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20282107/#/20282107 Drawer separators
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Emma
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